re: ATL Thread: 7/13 vs Metropolitans

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marginally better

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You’re fricking kidding yourself. This Braves line up top to bottom is twice the mets line up.

Again, I'll take my shot with

Nimmo
Marte
Lindor
Alonso
McNeil
Canha

We need another power bat but that's a very solid OBP-driven lineup

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What weaknesses would those be IYO?

B/c I really don't see any. We just didn't pitch up to our capabilities this series. That's all..It happens.

And LOL @ Mers fans ITT thinking this series is some kind of mandate and that the Mets have a better lineup.

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You responded to the wrong person. I was responding to the quote that you quoted me as saying.

Loss sucked but this was our 16th straight game. They haven't had a day off in over 2 weeks, and don't get one til the all star break.

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But the Mets have considerably better pitching at full strength

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Not sure I agree with this. It’s a philosophical argument just like the hitting imo. Braves BP is the best in the league by virtually any measure predictive or results based and they are still missing Yates. deGrom, Scherzer and Diaz are all the elite of the elite but there’s a huge difference in quality of depth.

These teams are built exactly opposite pitching wise as well. Braves are not very reliant on their starters to go deep in to games and are built with waves and waves of BP guys. I assume in the playoffs the Mets are going to lean heavily on their front line starters and piece it together to try to get to Diaz.

The Braves have Fried, Wright and maybe Soroka who are solid but none are going to be relied on to go deep in to games at all. 5 innings is more than enough and often times guys not named Fried have been capped at 4. Braves pulled Fried after 73 pitches in game 6 of the WS last year and he hadn’t even come close to giving up a run. I assume Strider will go to the pen as well to give them more flexibility with his usage, as well and another weapon. Their MO in the playoffs over the 28 playoff games they’ve played the last two years has essentially been to turn it over to the bullpen as early as possible and just unleash max effort stuff from 3-4 top line guys the second half of every game.

In regular season games Scherzer vs. Wright (just as an example) is a huge disadvantage for the Braves because both guys are going to be ridden as long as possible and odds are Scherzer is going to be better longer than Wright, but in the playoffs that turns into Scherzer vs. Wright 1-1.5 times through and then one inning each of Matzek/Strider/McHugh/Yates/Minter/Jansen

Point taken about the pen but as far as the regular season goes, the Mets also have superior SP depth -- Scherzer, deGrom, Bassit, Carrasco, Walker, Peterson, and maybe Megill in a month is considerably better than Wright, Fried, Soroka, Morton, Strider, Anderson, and Muller.

We're talking about the playoffs already and ideal roster construction for the playoffs but you still have to get there first. Also, guys like Megill should factor into the pen for the Mets down the stretch and in a potential playoff roster.

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Scherzer, deGrom, Bassit, Carrasco, Walker, Peterson, and maybe Megill in a month is considerably better than Wright, Fried, Soroka, Morton, Strider, Anderson, and Muller.

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You just proved that you have no idea what you're talking about. What a joke of a comment.

A deep bullpen and power in the lineup wins WS now. See the Braves last year, Dodgers in 20, and the Royals in
15.

And the Braves have the deepest pen in the league. Especially once Yates gets back.

ok

I'd take our 7-deep SPs over your 7-deep SPs in a heartbeat. You are free to disagree but I'm familiar with your guys.

And criticizing Canha for his batting average is a bit strange -- he has a .376 OBP over the past four seasons. He's a good baseball player.